Other Publications

Or from their bookstall, at meetings on the third Wednesday of the month from September to April, held in the St. Mary’s Hall opposite St. Marys’ Church East Leake at 7-30pm

FOUR CENTURY CALENDAR

Calculated and Compiled by Brian Davis from a 19th Century sampler

in Montacute House.

This is 2 A4 sheets, one which explains the method and the other which gives all the letters and numbers.

Both sheets need to be placed side by side then any day of a given date in the past or future can worked out.

Cost:

£1.75 including UK P&P

£2.30 including p&p to Europe

£3.10 including p&p to rest of World

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The History of East Leake Town Lands Trust

By Mollie Jacques, based on research done by R.Owen Wood

Maps Illustrations & photographs by Keith Wood

Format- A4 27 Pages

Published by East Leake Parish Council-2009

ISBN 0 953 103 0 2

CONTENTS;-

Foreward- Acknowledgements- Preface..

Introduction..

The Town Lands..

Tenancies..

Relationship between the Trust and the Parish Council..

The Town Lands Trust Indenture 1808..

Finance and Accounts..

Commentary on examples from the minute books for July 1919 to December 1966..

Events in the life of the East Leake Town Lands Trust since about 1950…

Appendix 1: Transcript of the 1808 indenture..

Appendix 2: Trustees identified in the 1808 indenture..

Appendix 3: CLA tenancy agreement..

Sources..

Illustrations:

Front Cover- Photograph of Town Land Trust Field.

Back Cover- Photograph of the fields bordering Gotham Lane and Stocking Lane owned by Town Lands Trust…….

Plan of the Town Lands at the time of the award 1799

Plan of the Town Lands in 1887

Plan of the Town Lands in 1922 showing the affect of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln Railway

The Town Lands Trust Indenture 1808- over the centre fold pages Page1 showing the title, Page 2, which is attached in front of page 1 and is secured by the seals of those who signed the documents and by threads.

Plan of the Town Lands in 1950

Plan of the Town Lands fields in 1969 showing recent housing developments in the area.

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Two Millennia of Village Life

A History Of East Leake by Owen Wood Published for the East Leake Parish Council Centenary 1895-1995
Published 1999
Format: – Quarto? (larger than A5 and smaller than A4) 78 Pages
ISBN: – 0 9535103 0 1

Early Times

A Medieval Agricultural Community

Thirteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

Farming and Enclosure

Industries of East Leake

Modern Times

Illustrations:

The Iron age estate in East Leake and neighboring villages.

Representation of the Saxon Church at Esterleke showing how the present church might lave looked in the early days. Drawn by David Clarke

Family tree of the Leakes of Leake and Sutton Scarsdale

Family tree of Stauntons, Shirleys and Ferrers

Part of the first lines of the deed establishing the Town Lands Trust

Signatures of the original trustees of the Town Lands Trust deed

The Bley Endowed Free School

The inscription on the side of the tomb of John Bley

Fifteenth century poppy seat and two seventeenth century seats in the church

Map showing the fields after enclosure( some details omitted)

Computor generated map showing the open fields of East Leake with Enclosure Map superimposed

24 assorted Black and White and coloured photographs over six pages

Photographs of Parish Councillors 1995 & 1999

The locations of the Framework Knitting Industry in East Leake

A page from Mark W. Mills catalogue showing drawings by George Godber

Two old pictures of the same stretch of Main Street

Map of East Leake 1884

Street Plan of East Leake 1999

Cost:

£6.70 including uk p&p

£8.50 including p&p to Europe

£10.60 including p&p to rest of world

Payment to be made to ‘ East Leake & District Local History Society’ by cheque or postal order for purchases from the UK.